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Mamata Banerjee alleges Amit Shah trying to incite violence in Bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged Home Minister Amit Shah was trying to incite violence in the state and egging the police to engage in unethical acts

Bengal polls: BJP, TMC workers clash over tearing of posters in Kolkata

A clash broke out between members of TMC and the BJP in Chetla area of Kolkata, considered to be the bastion of senior state minister Firhad Hakim, after posters of a party candidate were found torn

Battle of nerves between TMC, BJP amid changing equations in North Bengal

North Bengal, with its 54 seats, has all the wherewithal to be a game-changer this election, with the BJP striving hard to hold its fort in the region, and the TMC seeking to recover its lost ground

High-stake 'Khela' in WB: Top leaders, celebrities in Phase-IV battleground

From heavyweight leaders to celebrities, stakes are high in the fourth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections that will be held on Saturday

Bengal polls: 'Is Mamata pushing people towards anarchy', asks Amit Shah

Hitting out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks on the Central Forces, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday questioned whether she was pushing people towards anarchy

Mamata's fulminations against CAPF betrays frustration: Amit Shah

Coming down hard on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Home Minister Amit Shah said her fulminations against central forces betrayed frustration over "impending defeat" in the Assembly elections

WB polls: EC notice to Mamata Banerjee over remark on central forces

The EC has issued a notice to West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for her alleged statements against central armed police forces deputed on election duty in the state

WB: TMC worker accuses BJP of attacking its candidate from Mathabhanga

Girindra Nath Barman, the TMC candidate from Mathabhanga, was attacked by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers while he was returning from election campaign, alleged TMC workers

Election fever? States holding elections slow down Covid-19 testing

Most states have either pulled back on testing or not increased it enough to account for rising infections. Kerala reduced its daily testing by a fifth

WB assembly polls: Amit Shah to hold 4 public programs in West Bengal today

Ahead of West Bengal's phase IV elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold four public programs in the state on Friday

EC notice to Suvendu Adhikari for communal overtones in his speech

The Election Commission on Thursday issued a notice to Suvendu Adhikari, the BJP candidate from Nandigram in West Bengal, for alleged communal overtones in his speech made last month. He has been asked to respond to the notice within 24 hours. The notice said the poll panel received a complaint from Kavita Krishnan of CPI-ML Central Committee in which it was alleged that on March 29 Adhikari delivered a "hate speech" in Nandigram while addressing a public meeting. The EC referred to two provisions of the Model Code of Conduct which state that criticism of other political parties, when made, shall be confined to their policies and programmes, past record and work.Criticism of other parties or their workers based on unverified allegations or distortion shall be avoided. Another provision states that there shall be no appeal to caste or communal feelings for securing votes. The notice said the EC has been found to be in violation of certain clauses of the model code. Adhikari is pitt

High decibel campaign ends for fourth phase of polling in West Bengal

Campaigning for the high-decibel fourth phase of polling, for 44 assembly seats scheduled in five districts of West Bengal on April 10, ended at 5pm on Thursday. A total 1,15,81,022 voters including 58,82,514 men, 56,98,218 women and 290 members of the third gender, will decide the fate of 373 candidates in Friday's polling in constituencies spread over Howrah (Part II), South 24 Parganas (Part III), Hooghly (Part II) in south Bengal and in north Bengal's Alipurduar and Coochbehar. The polling will be held between 7AM to 6.30PM in 15,940 polling stations.At stake are nine assembly constituencies in Howrah, eleven in South 24 Parganas, five in Alipurduar, nine in Coochbehar and ten in Hooghly. Among those whose fate will be decided at the hustings are former Bengal Ranji captain Manoj Tiwary, TMC's candidate from Shibpur, state education minister and sitting MLA from Behala Paschim Partha Chatterjee and central minister Babul Supriyo of the BJP who has locked horns wit

BJP to repair old temples of Bengal, pay stipend to priests: Amit Malviya

The BJP, if voted to power, will renovate old temples, pay Rs 3,000 to 'purohits' (priests) and elderly kirtan singers per month and make Kolkata the financial hub of Eastern India, senior party leader Amit Malviya said on Thursday. He also said that a Rs 2,500 crore fund will be set up for promotion of the annual Ganga Sagar Mela. Speaking to reporters on certain points of the party's poll manifesto in Kolkata, the national in-charge of the BJP's Information & Technology department said that the party has several plans to develop West Bengal and preserve its culture and heritage. "We have drawn up plans to make Kolkata the financial hub of the East in the next five years. A corpus of Rs 300 crore will also be set up for the development of Information Technology parks, besides the existing ones," he said. He said that plans are also there to create a fund of Rs 22,000 crore for the upgradation of Kolkata's infrastructure, while Rs 1,500 crore will be spent for setting

EC can serve 10 notices, I'll oppose communal division of voters: Mamata

Asserting that she would continue to raise her voice against any attempt to divide voters on communal lines, Mamata Banerjee said the EC may serve 10 notices on her but she won't change her stance

No 'paribartan' in West Bengal under Trinamool Congress : Yogi Adityanath

Adityanath derided the TMC for failing to bring in any positive change in the ten years that it has been in power

WB polls: Take money offered by BJP, vote for TMC, says Abhishek Banerjee

Alleging the BJP was distributing cash to purchase votes, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee asked people to vote in favour of his party, after having taken the money being offered by the saffron camp

Bengal polls: BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty's roadshow disallowed in Behala

The BJP was denied permission to hold a roadshow of Bollywood superstar Mithun Chakraborty, who had recently joined the saffron camp, in Behala area

AICC Incharge of West Bengal, Jitin Prasada tests Covid-19 postive

All India Congress Committee in charge of West Bengal, Jitin Prasada on Wednesday announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19.The former minister for State for Human Resource in a tweet said: "I have tested positive for COVID-19. Anyone who may have come in contact with me over the last few days, please get yourselves tested. I am presently in quarantine as advised by my doctors."On April 5, he was seen campaigning in Kolkata Port in the South Kolkata district of Bengal for the Congress candidate, MD Mukhtar ahead of phase four of the West Bengal assembly elections.Polling in the fourth phase in the eight-phased West Bengal Assembly election is scheduled to be held on April 10.Meanwhile, with 1,15,736 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India recorded its daily highest spike on Wednesday.With the surge, the total count of cases in India has reached 1,28,01,785. The country reported 630 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours, while the active number of cases stands at ...

West Bengal registered 84.61% polling in third phase: Election Commission

West Bengal registered 84.61 per cent polling during the third phase of polling on April 6 held in 31 assembly constituencies spread across its three districts

Shah promises rapid industrialisation, predicts huge win for BJP in Bengal

Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a series of colourful road shows in three districts of south Bengal on Wednesday, promising rapid industrialisation if BJP is voted to power